In the Wake of Tikva Frymer-Kensky / / ed. by JoAnn Scurlock, Richard H. Beal, Steven Holloway.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• HerausgeberIn: Beal, Richard H.,; Holloway, Steven,; Scurlock, JoAnn,
• MitwirkendeR: Brenner, Athalya,; Chapman, Cynthia Ruth,; Edelman, Diana,; Fried, Lisbeth S.,; Guinan, Ann Kessler,; Kensky, Meira,; Noble, John T.,; Scurlock, JoAnn,; Sharon, Diane M.,; Solvang, Elna K.,; Sonik, Karen,; Weisberg, David B.,; Wiggins, Steve A.,; Zsolnay, Ilona,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Gorgias Précis Portfolios
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (261 p.)

This volume consists of 14 papers delivered by Assyriologists and biblical specialists at the 2007 Society of Biblical Literature congress in sessions devoted to the scholarly legacy of the late Tikva Frymer-Kensky, Professor of the Hebrew Bible at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- TIKVA FRYMER-KENSKY’S LEGACY -- IN THE WAKE OF MY MOTHER -- TIKVA FRYMER-KENSKY AND HER STUDIES IN BIBLE AND FEMINIST CRITICISM: AN ASSESSMENT -- IN THE WAKE OF THE WAKE -- IN THE WAKE OF THE GODDESSES : THEOLOGY, THE HUMANITIES, AND THE EDUCATION OF SEMINARIANS -- ASSYRIOLOGY -- ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN VAGINA DIALOGS AND THE SEX OMENS FROM MESOPOTAMIA -- NOT JUST HOUSEWIVES: GODDESSES AFTER THE OLD BABYLONIAN PERIOD -- NOTES ON NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S 37TH YEAR -- GENDER MATTERS IN ENÁMA ELIŠ -- DO DIVINE STRUCTURES OF GENDER MIRROR MORTAL STRUCTURES OF GENDER? -- BIBLICAL STUDIES -- THE CONCEPT OF “IMPURE BIRTH” IN 5TH CENTURY ATHENS AND JUDEA -- THE BIBLICAL “HOUSE OF THE MOTHER” AND THE BROKERING OF MARRIAGE: ECONOMIC RECIPROCITY AMONG NATAL SIBLINGS -- A REASSESSMENT OF TIKVA FRYMERKENSKY’S ASHERAH -- ANOTHER DEMAND FOR A KING: WOMEN IN THE NARRATIVE OF DAVID’S RISE -- THE FIRST ORIENTALIST? – FANTASY AND FOREIGNNESS IN THE BOOK OF ESTHER -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDICES